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Re: sound loop problem, please help!!!

If you are performing DMA's *anywhere* in your code, while the sound
is playing, you risk pre-empting the CPU's interrupt handler from
being able to feed more sound when the existing sample completes.
That situation caused random, intermittant clicking in my code.
Basically, you really have to make sure that when the sound DMA
completes its' last transfer, and generates an interrupt so that it
can be given more sample-data, you really need to service it ASAP.
DMA's take higher precidence than CPU, and if active when the
interrupt is triggered, can cause a delay before the interrupt is
serviced, and thus, a click is heard once in a while. There may be
more reasons for these clicks, but that's the only problem I ran into
which caused them. I hope that helps lead to a solution...

Roger






Fri Jan 4, 2002 5:17 am

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I am writing mixer, using stereo DMA1/2 transfer, drived by timer0. I am using double buffering that means my buffer have samples for two VBLANK periods (DMA...
tristanrybak
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Jan 4, 2002
1:33 am

If you are performing DMA's *anywhere* in your code, while the sound is playing, you risk pre-empting the CPU's interrupt handler from being able to feed more...
rogermilne100
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Jan 4, 2002
9:33 am

I think, that's not the problem. I isolated my code so there is no other DMA transfer then that feeding SOUND FIFO's. And I don't use DMA interrupt when sound...
Tristan Rybak
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Jan 4, 2002
11:44 am

I had similar problems with sound, but after reading http://belogic.com/gba/, I came up with a solution. Instead of trying to mix sounds once per frame, just...
dekutree65
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Jan 4, 2002
6:36 pm

Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated. I have a gba binary file (of my own making), compiled with GCC. Burned onto a real cart using Visoly's...
Gimbel Baxter
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Jan 5, 2002
1:15 am

Well, I had exactly the same problem. In my case it was the ONLY place in my project that a sprite was being displayed a co-ordinate from a ROM table, not a...
Francis Lillie
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Jan 5, 2002
4:45 pm

It seems to me that emulators would be the perfect tool for detecting this type of problem. Does anyone know of an emulator that can detect ROM writes? I had a...
Gimbel Baxter
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Jan 5, 2002
7:14 pm

Maybe you could check your prefetch settings. On official cartridges, you have to set them to 3-1-1. Codac/Apex http://hferradj.nerim.net ... De : Gimbel...
Poet007 - Da BondGirl...
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Jan 5, 2002
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I've had the same problem. I read the post on writing to ROM, but I'm sure that's not what happends in my project, because moving function calls around solved...
Thomas Egeskov Petersen
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Jan 6, 2002
4:31 pm

With my recently aquired and limited understanding of ROM writes, it seems moving function calls around could make the crash occur at a different place. ROM...
Gimbel Baxter
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Jan 6, 2002
7:52 pm

Hello Thomas, Sunday, January 06, 2002, 4:47:24 PM, you wrote: TEP> I've had the same problem. I read the post on writing to ROM, but I'm sure TEP> that's not...
groepaz
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Jan 6, 2002
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... I would (before starting GBA coding) say that this is 100% correct. However, because the result of attempted ROM writes is apparently random, a point which...
Francis Lillie
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Jan 6, 2002
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Eh, how can it be, if it only crashes on official Nintendo flash cartridges? - Tom...
Thomas Egeskov Petersen
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Jan 10, 2002
10:54 am

I'm aware it's been some time since this thread was active, and it's been some time since I found the solution too. The problem WAS that there was a write to...
Thomas Egeskov Petersen
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Feb 16, 2002
1:52 pm

Hi Thomas, ... Groepaz mentioned earlier that this was due to a bad crt0.s/lnkscript. The official lnkscript (atleast older versions anyway) does in fact put...
Jeff Frohwein
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Feb 16, 2002
3:13 pm

It seems to me that the easiest solution is to use the cascaded timers approach, but this does take up 2 timers, which may not be ideal. Since everything is...
Eddie Edwards
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Jan 9, 2002
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You may want to try enabling the timer interrupt, and put your countdown-til-buffer-swap in the timer interrupt handler, that way you don't have to worry about...
agd_developer
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Jan 5, 2002
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